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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Merry Crossmas

Nice cross-dressing project by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut.

VINTAGE 80S

T’is the season of the year-end best of photobook list (good ones here and here), and while it’s tempting to show off one’s eccentric and refined taste, I think it’s nicer to narrow in on something fun (and cheap). I picked up Johnny Stiletto’s Vintage 80s a while back, and cannot be happier. Stiletto’s sly, [...]

A TUESDAY SHRIGLEY SMILE

MONDAY MUSIC: ARCADE FIRE

Arcade Fire certainly had an impressive year as far as videos are concerned, making Spike Jonze look like the least inventive in the trio of directors employed to promote 2010’s grand third album The Suburbs. Embracing the Internet as the new medium to distribute music videos rather than fighting it, their first promo for The [...]

The Emigrant

W.G. Sebald, one of the greatest German authors of all time, died 10 years and four days ago. He was 57 years old. Damn.

CHRISTMAS KINDNESS 04: DAVID SHRIGLEY

Now that we are spending some splendid moments in Glasgow, it’s only appropriate to waste our final act of kindness on the dubious talents of one David Shrigley. See, it’s been years ago that we produced our first set of mono.editionen, and in a way, you can blame it on Shrigley that we thought it [...]

TODAY & TOMORROW

Despite post-structuralism’s and deconstruction’s extensive critique of the notion of ‘man’ and its humanist biases, early twenty-first century thought is experiencing a resurgence of interest in the classical philosophical question concerning ‘human nature’. What seems to be primarily at stake in current debates around this issue is not only an enquiry into the relation of [...]

Clipping Flatlands

Turkish sculptor Mehmet Ali Uysal interrupts flatlands. Seen on ignant.

SOMETHING I REALLY DIDN’T WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

MONO.KULTUR #30 / SOUNDBITE 03

Yes, oh yes.